Digg founder, defending his dog, chucks raccoon down stairs

The tech mogul was awoken in the middle of the night Saturday when a raccoon attacked his dog right outside his San Francisco home. Rose quickly, instinctively intervened by scooping up the raccoon and hurling it down the stairs, saving his labradoodle, Toaster, from almost certain death. (No clue about why the dog was out and about at some ungodly hour).

A security cam caught the dramatic intervention on tape. So Rose uploaded the 45-second clip to the web, where it garnered 5.4 million YouTube views and RT’d by a legion of Twitter followers, including a very relieved and grateful Toaster (@ToasterPup, aka San Francisco’s cutest dog).